✂ Social Zombies & Ginger vs Maryanne ⚗ °7.5° °VG°
Who doesn't like looking at pretty things? Who doesn't like looking at pretty people? Living with them is something different, though.
MIDIGB is a 2018 release consisting of 16 60-minute episodes. It floats by as lightly as oil over water; smooth & without ripples. It's not devoid of meaning, but its delivery is cotton balls on a pillow: Soft. The screenwriter, Choi Soo Young, also penned the marvelous Love to Hate You-8.9, which similarly sends a high IQ message with medium IQ verbiage (plus it's full of fun). MIDIGB is prescribed for when one wants to turn h/h brain off and escape. If one is looking for substance or isn't a romcom fan, look elsewhere.
MI-rae (Im Soo Hyang from Graceful Family & Five Enough) has been an outcast all her life. The kids at school say she's ugly. The bullying is so painful that she retreats within herself and tries very hard to not be seen at all. It would have been unbearable except for her best friend and the solo dance parties she has for herself in her room all alone. She's smart, one of the top in her class, so she's admitted to Hankuk U - and she doesn't want college to be a repeat of HS. Even though her father, who adores her, prohibits any kind of plastic surgery, her mom breaks the bank as soon as HS graduation ends. They order up the all-inclusive plastic-redo sampler platter. Mi-rae has the whole summer to recover.
Soon, Mi-rae will realize that it wasn't her body that needed work done so much as her unhealthy mindset. Now she gets attention of the opposite sort and is utterly unaware of how to act. She remains uncomfortable in her own skin. Quite coincidentally, my watch roulette landed on a string of shows dealing with appearance and/or body swapping, listed in order of quality: Abyss-4.7 (plenty of good elements and promise, but It ultimately fails miserably) 200 lb Beauty-6.5 (excellent elements but they fail to wrap it in a tight & neat fashion) My Runway-7.5 & The Miracle-7.7 (both are great for tweens & older), and now this. It's a common device, useful for putting our mind and emotions inside of another person for a new perspective.
From one perspective, MIDIGB is complete fantasy: These are college kids in the chemistry program, yet it's full of attractive females. Some of them are super attractive. My niece was a chemistry major and, being the only girl in her department, she was enormously popular. What went around the department was that they should treat her nicely because she's a “unicorn,” being both female and a minority, so she's a rare item indeed. (Our family all thought it was hilarious). Anyway, if you're a dude, and you watch this, and you want to major in chemistry to meet the women, fahgettaboudit.
The acting is competent but all the performances teeter & totter. It's enjoyable. It has its sparkle & flash in places, but it's alittle bit like soda that's lost half its fizz - part of it falls flat. It's missing that /something/ that would make it really special. Its message never gets old. Like vitamins, we need to ingest these truths more than once in a lifetime. Its low points are the attempted comedic scenes right after they make the relationship official, which are so moronic it hurts. Thankfully, those moments are few & clustered in one episode. Some of the costumes are drab, but some of the wardrobe is awesome. Mi-rae wears revamped men's dress shirts. They're so cool I wanna try doing that myself.
New look, new school, new people, new problems. At the after-orientation party, Mi-rae starts learning that she doesn't blend into the background anymore. She's singled out at the talent competition - ‘win one for the team!’ ‘We KNOW you can!’ PANIC❗ Wait… she's been practicing dance moves in her room alone for years. Mi-rae manages to pluck up the courage and does her thing. She's fabulous. She catches the attention of Do Gyeong “Seok” (Cha Eun Woo from Rookie Historian-7.6 & Wonderful World-7.8). He already had /her/ attention. She remembers him from middle school. He already had everyone's attention. He's smart, his father's a wealthy politician, and he's very, very good looking. Cha Eun Woo is a fabulous male lead. So much of romance is conveyed through the eyes. He does a great job with that.
Im Soo Hyang does a nice job playing the pretty girl who feels inadequate. When she gets attention, it happens too fast and there's way too much of it. The show is not instant coffee, it's a slow brew. She may frustrate viewers for taking a long time to sort out her baggage. The truth is that the programming we write about ourselves as children is so baked in that it never comes completely off. What's authentic about Mi-rae is that she still acts like an ugly person who feels s/he must cower in front of others & apologize for h/h very existence. She's certain she's not good enough, and the thought of being gossiped about triggers deeply implanted pain avoidance - understandably so. Another thing that positively nauseates her is to hear a guy tell her that he likes her because she's /pretty/. Hearing that paralyzes her. It repulses her.
Also new are some friends. These school friends are a mostly pleasant group, albeit closer to 2D than 3D. The TA who also likes Mi-rae is a total stud. Not merely nice looking, he is kind-hearted, caring, and protective. "I'm just frustrated that all I can do is punch people," he's shaking his head. I want to punch people who act horribly, also, but I won't get away with it. People who are considered as handsome as he is do get away with a lot of stuff. It's another truth we need to be aware of: A person's appearance affects how we judge their actions! That truth extends beyond the concept of attractiveness. Skin color and ethnicity also pressurize our judgment. That should not be.
Sua is the department belle, and the least pleasant of the bunch. She wants to be important, she wants to be worshiped, and she wants the best guy - the guy who everybody else wants. Guess who that is? She's manipulative and sneaky. I can identify with MI-rae who didn't make many friends in the run of her life. Therefore, she was ill-equipped to deal w/ the potency of a pretty person paying attention to her - someone who acts friendly but stabs her in the back. Mi-rae's a sheep among the wolves - even moreso now that she's pretty. Sua is motivated by pride. People gossip, laugh at, and pick on others to feel better by comparison. It's repugnant. A deeper look at Sua's life informs who she is at present. Strange & obnoxious behavior is often due to pain.
Gossip is a theme. Gossip hurts. Gossipers are just zombies - always👄consuming, always 👄tearing & 👄chewing. Can they be appeased? It's better to beat them back, b/c there's no winning against these mindless mandibles. The nature of attraction is frequently at odds w/ the social zombies who tear at every precious soul. Mi-rae watches them chew up the chubby girl & the guy who likes her as she is. There's many men who want an extra huggable woman. They're shamed into liking something different by the 👄chompers. Next, the girls are “rated” by every duffer & punk-jack@$$ in the school. None of these guys are anything special themselves. In a display of rank irony, Mi-rae, who had been brutalized for being ugly, is subjected to snide remarks about being a Gangnam Beauty, now that she's beautiful. Gangnam is an upscale area and GB means plastic or fake. Mi-rae starts to live in 😱 that someone will learn of her secret: She's NOT pretty; she's just an ugly girl.
"You know, I think my life could have been much easier had I been born less pretty," says our ML‘s mom. Ugly people are treated differently, & so are pretty people. Being beautiful creates a smooth road for life, but it can bring all kinds of wrong attention & get in the way of accomplishments. Over time, the inside of a person shines brighter than their outside facade. The heart & soul can make beautiful people ugly & plain people attractive. I have friends who were gorgeous when they were younger & it netted them nothing. They married the wrong husbands & now they're divorced & unhappy. “A beautiful 🌹. Back then, I had no idea that those words would end up shackling me down,” Seok's mother reflects. She was scooped up for marriage like a pretty ornament. Then, too much pressure was put on her to take on a strictly traditional role & give up her dream. She has a passion to make perfume, but the expectation put on her was to look good & do nothing else. While Mi-rae grew up in a humble but warm home, Seok's living conditions were wealthy, cold, & quickly broken.
Emotional pain can be worse than physical pain. Ask the doctors who fix cleft palates for Operation Smile if plastic surgery can change lives. Anyone who has a feature (like an unattractive nose) that grabs all the attention shouldn't be criticised for tweaking things. Life becomes much easier with the absence of deformities. Just like exercise, however, as something useful, plastic surgery also has potential to morph into an unhealthy obsession. In a world where people are getting "work done" on their gen¡tals, we cannot deny that the looks obsession is out of control. That, coupled with the fact that people no longer value good character and general decency, makes the world a horrible place.
Let's not be zombies. Let's treat everyone with dignity. ‘Beauty is skin deep.’ ‘True beauty always comes from within.’ ‘Confidence is the sexiest thing of all.’ ‘No matter how beautiful a woman is there's a man out there tired of putting up with her $h!+.’ How many ways must we hear it? Looks matter because people are shallow and they will treat people differently based on looks. Shining the light on this social and emotional ugliness is the way to combat it. Even more bizarre, is that women do this crazy stuff more to impress other women than to actually appeal to a decent, mature man - a man who wants a mate for love and companionship, not as a conquest or arm candy. What men and women find attractive is quite different. Gilligan's Island is a silly little show about a diverse group of people stranded on an island. There's two young females in the group: Ginger, the glamorous movie star, and Maryanne, the farm girl. Maryanne is in denim shorts and a gingham shirt. She's in ponytails. She's perky. She's /not nearly/ as attractive as Ginger! Every girl wanted to be Ginger. BUT❕ The polls consistently showed that men prefer Maryanne! Being approachable and comfortable to be around will draw the right people in. Spend that energy working on a sense of humor, but primarily on good character. That is what will draw the right mate in.
QUOTES🗣
You know what's more irritating? I keep trying to fit myself into their standards unconsciously.
A true strong person is someone who tries not to hurt the people who are weaker than them.
The wounds caused by other people get cured by people.
〰🖍 IMHO
🎬7.6 📝7.3 🎭7 💓7.5 🦋7 🌞6 🎨7.4 ⚡4 🎵/🔊 7.5 😅2 😭4 😱3 🤔5 💤3 🔚7.5
Age 12+
Re-📺? Couldn't say, but he's a fantastic ML
MIDIGB is a 2018 release consisting of 16 60-minute episodes. It floats by as lightly as oil over water; smooth & without ripples. It's not devoid of meaning, but its delivery is cotton balls on a pillow: Soft. The screenwriter, Choi Soo Young, also penned the marvelous Love to Hate You-8.9, which similarly sends a high IQ message with medium IQ verbiage (plus it's full of fun). MIDIGB is prescribed for when one wants to turn h/h brain off and escape. If one is looking for substance or isn't a romcom fan, look elsewhere.
MI-rae (Im Soo Hyang from Graceful Family & Five Enough) has been an outcast all her life. The kids at school say she's ugly. The bullying is so painful that she retreats within herself and tries very hard to not be seen at all. It would have been unbearable except for her best friend and the solo dance parties she has for herself in her room all alone. She's smart, one of the top in her class, so she's admitted to Hankuk U - and she doesn't want college to be a repeat of HS. Even though her father, who adores her, prohibits any kind of plastic surgery, her mom breaks the bank as soon as HS graduation ends. They order up the all-inclusive plastic-redo sampler platter. Mi-rae has the whole summer to recover.
Soon, Mi-rae will realize that it wasn't her body that needed work done so much as her unhealthy mindset. Now she gets attention of the opposite sort and is utterly unaware of how to act. She remains uncomfortable in her own skin. Quite coincidentally, my watch roulette landed on a string of shows dealing with appearance and/or body swapping, listed in order of quality: Abyss-4.7 (plenty of good elements and promise, but It ultimately fails miserably) 200 lb Beauty-6.5 (excellent elements but they fail to wrap it in a tight & neat fashion) My Runway-7.5 & The Miracle-7.7 (both are great for tweens & older), and now this. It's a common device, useful for putting our mind and emotions inside of another person for a new perspective.
From one perspective, MIDIGB is complete fantasy: These are college kids in the chemistry program, yet it's full of attractive females. Some of them are super attractive. My niece was a chemistry major and, being the only girl in her department, she was enormously popular. What went around the department was that they should treat her nicely because she's a “unicorn,” being both female and a minority, so she's a rare item indeed. (Our family all thought it was hilarious). Anyway, if you're a dude, and you watch this, and you want to major in chemistry to meet the women, fahgettaboudit.
The acting is competent but all the performances teeter & totter. It's enjoyable. It has its sparkle & flash in places, but it's alittle bit like soda that's lost half its fizz - part of it falls flat. It's missing that /something/ that would make it really special. Its message never gets old. Like vitamins, we need to ingest these truths more than once in a lifetime. Its low points are the attempted comedic scenes right after they make the relationship official, which are so moronic it hurts. Thankfully, those moments are few & clustered in one episode. Some of the costumes are drab, but some of the wardrobe is awesome. Mi-rae wears revamped men's dress shirts. They're so cool I wanna try doing that myself.
New look, new school, new people, new problems. At the after-orientation party, Mi-rae starts learning that she doesn't blend into the background anymore. She's singled out at the talent competition - ‘win one for the team!’ ‘We KNOW you can!’ PANIC❗ Wait… she's been practicing dance moves in her room alone for years. Mi-rae manages to pluck up the courage and does her thing. She's fabulous. She catches the attention of Do Gyeong “Seok” (Cha Eun Woo from Rookie Historian-7.6 & Wonderful World-7.8). He already had /her/ attention. She remembers him from middle school. He already had everyone's attention. He's smart, his father's a wealthy politician, and he's very, very good looking. Cha Eun Woo is a fabulous male lead. So much of romance is conveyed through the eyes. He does a great job with that.
Im Soo Hyang does a nice job playing the pretty girl who feels inadequate. When she gets attention, it happens too fast and there's way too much of it. The show is not instant coffee, it's a slow brew. She may frustrate viewers for taking a long time to sort out her baggage. The truth is that the programming we write about ourselves as children is so baked in that it never comes completely off. What's authentic about Mi-rae is that she still acts like an ugly person who feels s/he must cower in front of others & apologize for h/h very existence. She's certain she's not good enough, and the thought of being gossiped about triggers deeply implanted pain avoidance - understandably so. Another thing that positively nauseates her is to hear a guy tell her that he likes her because she's /pretty/. Hearing that paralyzes her. It repulses her.
Also new are some friends. These school friends are a mostly pleasant group, albeit closer to 2D than 3D. The TA who also likes Mi-rae is a total stud. Not merely nice looking, he is kind-hearted, caring, and protective. "I'm just frustrated that all I can do is punch people," he's shaking his head. I want to punch people who act horribly, also, but I won't get away with it. People who are considered as handsome as he is do get away with a lot of stuff. It's another truth we need to be aware of: A person's appearance affects how we judge their actions! That truth extends beyond the concept of attractiveness. Skin color and ethnicity also pressurize our judgment. That should not be.
Sua is the department belle, and the least pleasant of the bunch. She wants to be important, she wants to be worshiped, and she wants the best guy - the guy who everybody else wants. Guess who that is? She's manipulative and sneaky. I can identify with MI-rae who didn't make many friends in the run of her life. Therefore, she was ill-equipped to deal w/ the potency of a pretty person paying attention to her - someone who acts friendly but stabs her in the back. Mi-rae's a sheep among the wolves - even moreso now that she's pretty. Sua is motivated by pride. People gossip, laugh at, and pick on others to feel better by comparison. It's repugnant. A deeper look at Sua's life informs who she is at present. Strange & obnoxious behavior is often due to pain.
Gossip is a theme. Gossip hurts. Gossipers are just zombies - always👄consuming, always 👄tearing & 👄chewing. Can they be appeased? It's better to beat them back, b/c there's no winning against these mindless mandibles. The nature of attraction is frequently at odds w/ the social zombies who tear at every precious soul. Mi-rae watches them chew up the chubby girl & the guy who likes her as she is. There's many men who want an extra huggable woman. They're shamed into liking something different by the 👄chompers. Next, the girls are “rated” by every duffer & punk-jack@$$ in the school. None of these guys are anything special themselves. In a display of rank irony, Mi-rae, who had been brutalized for being ugly, is subjected to snide remarks about being a Gangnam Beauty, now that she's beautiful. Gangnam is an upscale area and GB means plastic or fake. Mi-rae starts to live in 😱 that someone will learn of her secret: She's NOT pretty; she's just an ugly girl.
"You know, I think my life could have been much easier had I been born less pretty," says our ML‘s mom. Ugly people are treated differently, & so are pretty people. Being beautiful creates a smooth road for life, but it can bring all kinds of wrong attention & get in the way of accomplishments. Over time, the inside of a person shines brighter than their outside facade. The heart & soul can make beautiful people ugly & plain people attractive. I have friends who were gorgeous when they were younger & it netted them nothing. They married the wrong husbands & now they're divorced & unhappy. “A beautiful 🌹. Back then, I had no idea that those words would end up shackling me down,” Seok's mother reflects. She was scooped up for marriage like a pretty ornament. Then, too much pressure was put on her to take on a strictly traditional role & give up her dream. She has a passion to make perfume, but the expectation put on her was to look good & do nothing else. While Mi-rae grew up in a humble but warm home, Seok's living conditions were wealthy, cold, & quickly broken.
Emotional pain can be worse than physical pain. Ask the doctors who fix cleft palates for Operation Smile if plastic surgery can change lives. Anyone who has a feature (like an unattractive nose) that grabs all the attention shouldn't be criticised for tweaking things. Life becomes much easier with the absence of deformities. Just like exercise, however, as something useful, plastic surgery also has potential to morph into an unhealthy obsession. In a world where people are getting "work done" on their gen¡tals, we cannot deny that the looks obsession is out of control. That, coupled with the fact that people no longer value good character and general decency, makes the world a horrible place.
Let's not be zombies. Let's treat everyone with dignity. ‘Beauty is skin deep.’ ‘True beauty always comes from within.’ ‘Confidence is the sexiest thing of all.’ ‘No matter how beautiful a woman is there's a man out there tired of putting up with her $h!+.’ How many ways must we hear it? Looks matter because people are shallow and they will treat people differently based on looks. Shining the light on this social and emotional ugliness is the way to combat it. Even more bizarre, is that women do this crazy stuff more to impress other women than to actually appeal to a decent, mature man - a man who wants a mate for love and companionship, not as a conquest or arm candy. What men and women find attractive is quite different. Gilligan's Island is a silly little show about a diverse group of people stranded on an island. There's two young females in the group: Ginger, the glamorous movie star, and Maryanne, the farm girl. Maryanne is in denim shorts and a gingham shirt. She's in ponytails. She's perky. She's /not nearly/ as attractive as Ginger! Every girl wanted to be Ginger. BUT❕ The polls consistently showed that men prefer Maryanne! Being approachable and comfortable to be around will draw the right people in. Spend that energy working on a sense of humor, but primarily on good character. That is what will draw the right mate in.
QUOTES🗣
You know what's more irritating? I keep trying to fit myself into their standards unconsciously.
A true strong person is someone who tries not to hurt the people who are weaker than them.
The wounds caused by other people get cured by people.
〰🖍 IMHO
🎬7.6 📝7.3 🎭7 💓7.5 🦋7 🌞6 🎨7.4 ⚡4 🎵/🔊 7.5 😅2 😭4 😱3 🤔5 💤3 🔚7.5
Age 12+
Re-📺? Couldn't say, but he's a fantastic ML
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